Your comments: Lakefront owners are going to have to pay more

Lauren Long / The Post-Standard Charlie and Denise Foland have lived in their Brewerton home with their two sons, including Dave (pictured here), for nearly 20 years. The waterfront property was recently reassessed - for the first time in 50 years - more than tripling the estimated value of their home. The family is concerned they won't be able to stay there unless an adjustment is made.

Six houses on Long Point Road in Cicero belong to the Foland family, but new assessments that will double, and even triple, their tax bills may force several of the family members to move off Oneida Lake.

Charlie Foland is among hundreds of Cicero residents who will challenge their assessments today and Wednesday. The town hired GAR Associates about two years ago to reassess all of its about 13,800 properties to reflect the full market value of each. The last time the town did this was more than 50 years ago.

Assessments went up on about 30 percent of the properties, including most of the 900 residents on waterfront.

Users of syracuse.com had plenty to say. Here's what one user, sunorth, had to say:

"I live in Cicero and my taxes went down because the lakefront people are finally paying their fair share. I overpaid for the last 17 years based on the new assessments, where do I get my payback. Yeah that's what I thought......I don't. Triple taxes all at once is not right, if they have 3 legitimate assessments for $350,000 to $400,000 and the towns assessment is $625,000, then the town is wrong. But, lakefront owners are going to have to pay more than they have been, their property is worth more."